22/XII 1915.

Dear friend Roman V. Malinovsky, I received your letter1 and passed on to the local committee your request to send some things. I received a message from them - through an acquaintance of a comrade - that everything has been sent to you. Can you tell me if you have received it?

We were very glad to learn that you have a library there and an opportunity to study and give lectures. If possible, it would be a good idea to try, if it is allowed, to organize a questionnaire among the prisoners about their political views and sympathies in connection with their social status. You probably have a great deal of interesting material and observations.

I hope that you are healthy and remain cheerful. Please write about yourself and bow to your friends, who are probably with you in the new environment.

Nadezhda K[onstantinovna] bows very much.

Your V. Ulyanov.

Ulianow. Seidenweg. 4а. Bern. Schweiz.

Published - "Historical Archive", 1995, No. 4, p. 10.

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 27137 - autograph.

1The letter of R.V.Malinovsky to V.I.Lenin has not been found.